In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011.
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The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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It has been reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve their prison time.
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In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
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